{"id":320648,"date":"2020-03-02T03:14:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T03:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320648"},"modified":"2020-03-02T03:14:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T03:14:11","slug":"second-coronavirus-death-confirmed-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/second-coronavirus-death-confirmed-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Second coronavirus death confirmed in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319336 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cornavirus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/cornavirus.jpg 583w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/cornavirus-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/cornavirus-522x420.jpg 522w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/>A second coronavirus death has been confirmed in Washington, according to press release from Public Health \u2013 Seattle and King County.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The patient was a man in his 70s with underlying health conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The first death was on Saturday and was a King County man in his 50s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The individual who died was a man in his 50s with underlying health conditions who had no history of travel or contact with a known COVID-19 case, the release said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Trump in a tweet said, \u201cCoronavirus: In addition to screening travelers \u201cprior to boarding\u201d from certain designated high risk countries, or areas within those countries, they will also be screened when they arrive in America. Thank you!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Italy, the death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus has risen to 34, the Civil Protection Agency said on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">South Korea has reported nearly 500 new Coronavirus cases in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second coronavirus death has been confirmed in Washington, according to press release from Public Health \u2013 Seattle and King County. The patient was a man in his 70s with underlying health conditions. The first death was on Saturday and was a King County man in his 50s. The individual who died was a man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[12470,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320649,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320648\/revisions\/320649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}